Teaching, 2008-2009

Spring, 2008:	Fall, 2008:	Spring, 2009:
CMJ 211: History of Mass Media	CMJ 340: Broadcast Writing and Reporting	CMJ 211: History of Mass Media (2 sections)
CMJ 489: Seminar in Media Ethics	CMJ 489: Seminar in Media Ethics	CMJ 489: Seminar in Media Ethics

Scholarship

• Michael J. Socolow, "The Behaviorist in the Boardroom: The Research of Frank Stanton, Ph.D." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 52 (4) (Winter, 2008) (Forthcoming)


• Michael J. Socolow, "A Wavelength for Every Network: Synchronous Broadcasting and National Radio in the United States, 1926-1933," Technology & Culture 49 (1) (January, 2008): 89-113.


• Michael J. Socolow, "'News is a Weapon': Domestic Radio Propaganda and Broadcast Journalism in America, 1939-1944" American Journalism 24 (3) (Summer, 2007): 109-131.


• Michael J. Socolow, " 'Always in Friendly Competition': NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting" in Michele Hilmes, ed. NBC: America's Network (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007): 25-43.


• Michael J. Socolow, "Psyche and Society: Radio Advertising and Social Psychology in America, 1923-1936," Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 24 (4) (Oct. 2004): 517-534.


• Michael J. Socolow, "Anchors Away: Huntley, Brinkley, and Cronkite and the 1967 AFTRA Strike," Journalism History, 29 (2) (Summer, 2003): 50-58


• Michael J. Socolow, "Questioning Advertising's Influence Over American Radio: The Blue Book Controversy of 1945-1947," Journal of Radio Studies, 9 (2) (December, 2002): 282-302.

Media Commentary and Book Reviews

• "The Hyped Panic Over 'War of the Worlds,'" The Chronicle Review, October 24, 2008, B16.


• Review of Bruce Lenthall, Radio’s America, and Kathy Newman, Radio Active, in Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 28 (1) (March, 2008): 85-88.


• "Trivial Trial Nears End," Boston Herald, February 20, 2007.


• "Our Media, Our Selves," The San Diego Union Tribune, October 5, 2006.


• "War Protests: Ardent Elders, Unaware Youth,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2006.


• Review of David Margolick, Beyond Glory in Vingtieme Siecle 91 (July-Sept 2006): 192-193.


• Review of Paul Heyer, The Magician and the Medium, in Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 26 (2) (June, 2006): 288-290.


• “Proposed Rule Changes Would Tangle the Web,” The Baltimore Sun, May 9, 2006.


• “The Glamour of War,” The Boston Globe, February 3, 2006. [Reprinted as “The Glamour of the Front Lines,” in The International Herald Tribune , February 6, 2006]


• “At War: Government and the Media,” The Boston Globe, December 12, 2005.


• “Can Newspapers Reverse Their Decline?” The Baltimore Sun, August 14, 2005.


• “A Fuzzy Picture,” The Boston Globe, April 8, 2005.


• “The Power of Ted,” The Chicago Tribune, April 3, 2005.


• “The Legacy of Y2K,” The Boston Globe, December 31, 2004.


• “The Legacy of Dan Rather,” The Boston Globe, November 25, 2004.

Conference Presentations

• "Myths, Lies, and Omissions in Journalism History," Panelist & Organizer, 2007 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention, Washington, DC.


• “ ‘Psyche and Society in a Single Echo Chamber’: Radio Advertising, Social Psychology, and the Audience Commodity, 1926-1941”
  
• 2004 American Historical Association conference, Washington, DC.


• “The Lazy Reporter’s Worst Nightmare: The Weblog Revolution”
  2002-2003 Brandeis University Cyberpsychology Colloquium.


• “Advocating for the Radio Listener: James Lawrence Fly, Clifford J. Durr and Charles A. Siepmann”
  2002 Organization of American Historians conference, Washington, DC.


• “ ‘Who is Doing the Kicking at the Present Time?’: N.B.C., C.B.S., James Lawrence Fly and the Politics of Chain Broadcasting Regulation, 1936 - 1943”
  2001 American Studies Association conference, Washington DC.

Other

• Guest on "Counterpoint," ABC Radio, Australia, speaking about "War of the Worlds," November 3, 2008.
  
• Interviewed for WVII/WFVX, Bangor, for local news report on the endorsement of candidates by newspapers, October 22, 2008.
  
• Quoted by Maine Public Broadcasting's Radio Network in "Maine's Largest Dailies to Share Stories and Photos," MPBN.net, September 22, 2008.
• Appeared on Maine Public Broadcasting's "MaineWatch," March 30, 2007.
  
• Represented the University of Maine as a panelist for the Gubernatorial Debate on Maine Public Broadcasting, November 1, 2006